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Please dont outsmart the censor. That is a very expensive censor and every time one of you guys outsmart it it makes someone at the home office feel bad. We dont wanna do that. So dont cleverly disguise bad words.

They said the collapsing CF wheel absorbed the crash energy and surely spared the dog serious injury. I would expect the action of the folding wheel also lessened the impact for the bike racer as well, who got a replacement bicycle and resumed racing immediately after this crash.

Hopefully soon you'll be able to see the video posted on the Animal Planet site or somewhere like youtube.
It's really great,... I asked wolfpack to watch it and she did (thank you)

First, his name was Nelson, not Gordan (?) No clue where I got the impression his name was Gordan but his owner is French, the accent, not really sure.

His parents were the Roches, famous for adventures in Europe and Nelson spent his early years skydiving with the family. (The video from the segment is really cute and a must see)

In 2007, Nelson was nine, getting on up there in age for a yellow lab and beginning to be a little deaf. (maybe quite a bit deaf) The Tour was coming right through his little village and the entire family was watching the cyclists from their porch.

Nelson was enjoying the race from his favorite spot on the porch. His Dad went to take photos and left Nelson with other members of the family.

You can see some of this coming. Everyone gets wrapped up in the excitement of the stage. Nelson was used to obeying the French word for "come on" Alle Alle (?) Help me here, someone,.....

Well, the whole crowd begins this chant and poor Nelson thinks his master is calling for him....

Walks right into the T- mobile cyclist.

No matter your opinion of what could, or couldn't have been done to prevent the accident, it's a really nice story showing there was a lot more to Nelson and his life than just a one minute clip from the Tour de France that none of us who watched it will ever forget.

I am truly sorry if I crapped all over your thread with my opinion, but I do feel strongly about this issue. I live in a town that is somewhat famous for a little boy that was mauled by dogs left on the loose, despite very clear laws restricting it, and also despite the fact that the owners were well aware their dogs had caused problems in the past, yet til the end denied any responsibility. The little boy will never be the same again, having his scalp peeled from his scull and many, many painful plastic surgeries to get him back to anything approaching a normal appearance...not even considering the psychological trauma he'll carry with him the rest of his life

This is in no way saying that Norman the lab being discussed was some sort of vicious animal, but it is apparent that in his older years could be confused and wander off. For his protection his owner should've been paying a bit more attention or made better provision for his care, a job he signed on for life. Had either the cyclist or poor old Norman been seriously injured, this would be an entirely different story.

Should the dog have been leashed with the TdF blasting through? Of course. But it was one of those things, and older dog who probably smelled his loved one on the other side of the road and started to walk towards him (the nephew) but was too blind/deaf to sense the peloton hurtling through.

I got into a 30 MPH sprint with a man eater yesterday - he wouldn't give up. When the three guys I was riding with got to the dog he was too tuckered out to chase. Too bad about the lab - ha, not really, he got his...